The Earth is always spinning. Every day, you are turned upside down and back again. You will also probably have travelled thousands of kilometres and as much as 40,000 kilometres if you live\u00a0near the equator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the equator, the Earth is spinning at about\u00a01675 kilometres\u00a0per hour \u2013 much faster than an aeroplane. But if you stand on the North Pole or on the South Pole, then all you\u2019ll do is turn around on the spot. This is the point around which the Earth spins. It\u2019s called the \u201caxis\u201d, like the axle of a wheel going all the way through the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Earth spins around on its axis once in one day. This is why we see the Sun rise in the east, because the Earth turns in that direction, and so do you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the Sun seems to move across the sky, you may be forgiven for thinking the Sun travels around the Earth. For a long time that\u2019s exactly\u00a0what people thought. But it\u2019s actually the Earth that travels around the Sun, and the spinning of the Earth on its axis makes the position of the Sun in the sky change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This movement of the Earth also means that on a clear night you will see the stars rise in the east and set in the west, like the rising and setting of the Sun in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if you stand on the North Pole or on the South Pole and look up, you\u2019d see the stars move around in a circle above you. That\u2019s because the Earth\u2019s axis points at a point in the sky around which everything appears to move, including the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the North, this happens to be very close to a star called Polaris, or the\u00a0North Star. It is in the constellation called Ursa Minor, or the Little Bear. This is easier to find if you first look for\u00a0the Plough, or Big Dipper, which is easy to spot and is part of the constellation called\u00a0Ursa Major\u00a0or the Big Bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Earth is a bit like a giant rolling ball. Imagine standing on that rolling ball. You might worry that if you didn\u2019t keep peddling your feet you\u2019d fall off. But the reason you won\u2019t fall off the Earth is because of the force of gravity. This pulls us towards the middle of the Earth, and keeps our feet firmly on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why we call the ground \u201cbelow us\u201d and the sky \u201cabove us\u201d. If someone was watching us from space, after half a day the Earth will have turned and we\u2019d be upside down. But for us, the ground is still below us, and the sky is still above us. Gravity still pulls us down to the Earth, so we don\u2019t feel like we\u2019re the wrong way up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don\u2019t notice the Earth spinning when we look at the things around us, because they all move with us in exactly the same way, held firm by gravity. Even the air moves with us as the Earth spins. That\u2019s why you don\u2019t feel a constant breeze, like you would when cycling fast or enjoying a ride on a roller coaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here on Earth, your door will stay where your door is, and your stairs will be where you found them last time. They move with you as the Earth tumbles, and you won\u2019t even get dizzy – unless you spin around like a ballerina yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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